The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act

By Jessica Pliley 20th and 21st Century United States

The Mann Act protected women from “human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.”

Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI

By Laura Lammasniemi Medicine and the Body

In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.

Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature

By Amy Burge Medieval

Concerns about the sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.

Lesbian Histories and Futures: “Gay American History @ 40”

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History.

“I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s

By Andrea Friedman 20th and 21st Century United States

What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By Michelle Lynn Kahn Modern Europe, Sexual Violence

The language of xenophobia and nationalism has long been staged on women’s bodies.

Astrological Birth Control: Fertility Awareness and the Politics of Non-Hormonal Contraception

By Donna Drucker Medicine and the Body

In the late 1960s, there was a ready audience for astrological birth control, a repackaged concept that now emerged as a fertility management option.